Textile fragment with flowers and chevrons
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers and chevrons
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Associated place
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Date
19th century (1801 - 1900) -
Material and technique
four pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; joined with stitching, possibly in mercerized cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
89 x 64 cm (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 7 / 7 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 7 / 8 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3 6 / 8 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 4 8 / 8 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.897
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Catalogue text
A large fabric with a continuous design of crudely printed red flowers with brown outlines against a light ground. On all four sides are bands with red chevrons; on three sides these are part of the original design, but on the fourth side the band has been sewn on later.
Two selvedges. At one end of the fabric the border and two pieces of fabric with the flower design have been sewn on. 19th century.In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), no. 891 on p. 262 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 262 fig. 891
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